Blue Hens' Daly to miss several weeks with sprained ankle

Delaware guard Ryan Daly uses crutches after injuring his ankle late in the second half of the Blue Hens' 62-54 loss at the Bob Carpenter Center Thursday.(Photo: William Bretzger, The News Journal)Buy Photo

Delaware sophomore guard Ryan Daly will likely miss three weeks with sprained ligaments in his left ankle, he said before Saturday night’s home Colonial Athletic Association basketball game against Hofstra.

Daly, who was on crutches and had a cast on his ankle, was injured in the final minute of Thursday’s 62-54 loss to Charleston at the Carpenter Center and had to be helped off the floor.

Daly, the 2017 CAA rookie of the year, leads Delaware and is eighth in the conference averaging 16.9 points per game. He is also second on the team and 12th in the league in rebounding (6.0)

Delaware (11-11 overall, 4-5 CAA) was seeking to end a three-game losing streak Saturday night against Hofstra (12-9, 5-4), which beat the Hens 90-63 Jan. 18 in Hempstead, New York.

Delaware had already lost freshman guard Kevin Anderson for the season with a knee injury and removed Derrick Woods from the roster for disciplinary reasons, leaving it with seven available scholarship players without Daly.

Daly said he hopes to return by the final week of the regular season when Delaware visits Drexel Feb. 22 and hosts James Madison Feb. 24, and be ready for the CAA Tournament March 3-6 at the North Charleston (S.C.) Coliseum.